skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Forgotten Weapons video says that probably less than 100 of these were ever produced, and the production line never managed to make one that worked properly. This seems like an important detail which is missing entirely from the Wikipedia article. (There used to be a paragraph mentioning the small production run, but it got lost in this edit[1] in 2021.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mamba_Pistol&diff...
That definitely shows why Google isn't abusing its monopoly powers, and why it shouldn't be broken up.
Merry Chrysler!
I beat cancer this year. Every day is a gift
> the mall you'd go to needs to be built and heated and fully staffed, and thousands of cars need to drive there etc etc

And that isn't the case with the logistics for fulfilment centers and storage scattered all over the place? Just not visible to you, but as per your example times 4, which wouldn't be the case if you get something that fits at the first try.
Rust doesn’t automatically apply conversions, full stop.

And with a thoughtful approach to the API, you could avoid numerical error entirely by using integral types.
I think the running commentary is interesting. It sounds like a person talking through their thought process out loud.

This is how Molmo’s dataset, PixMo was created – by recording human annotators describing the image out loud. I wonder if this is how QvQ was trained as well?

> we ask annotators to describe images in speech for 60 to 90 seconds rather than asking them to write descriptions. We prompt the annotators to describe everything they see in great detail and include descriptions of spatial positioning and relationships. Empirically, we found that with this modality switching "trick" annotators provide far more detailed descriptions in less time, and for each description we collect an audio receipt (i.e., the annotator's recording) proving that a VLM was not used.

— https://molmo.allenai.org/blog
The point of that demonstration is that people do things without consciously thinking about them. You don’t have a choice, I am controlling your behavior in an extremely minor way.
> About the size of a board game die

Is there a standard size that most dice are? I've seen... I think from a quarter inch or so to a whole inch.
Firefox v133.0.3
I didn't like my stepfather, but his family did Christmas right. We'd all go to his parents' house, and it seemed like there were a hundred family members there. Incredible food, tamales, a big pot of beans and fresh corn tortillas, carnitas. The grandfather did the Santa Claus tradition, handing out the presents in full costume and character, after which my 50 step-cousins and I would absolutely destroy whatever toys we had just received.

When bedtime arrived, of course there weren't enough beds for everyone, so each of us kids would grab couch cushions, find a nook somewhere between two pieces of furniture, and sleep like the dead on the 1970s plush carpet.

My mom wised up a few years later and divorced him, instantly improving the other 364 days of the year. But I missed those crazy Christmases.
> It's not dramatic at all.

It was not the show that "saved" him; it was cellphone location data that got the charges dismissed. He was never on trial with the possibility of death row because it never got that far.
What hasn't changed:

* US economy has been growing steadily, and will do so for the foreseeable future

* Index funds are still a great way to invest your money

And more importantly,

* Most people suck at picking stocks (including the average Joe, mutual fund managers, YouTube/TikTok influencers and "stock analysts"). It's better to just leave it to the market, aka SPY(VOO)/VTI etc., and have good sleep.
Edit: never mind you're the same guy constructing strawman arguments in the other thread
yeah, i get llm/ai bad, but this is just low effort pandering to hners.
Congratulations, wishing you many more.
Yeah they discourage me as well.

But what I say doesn't matter. What this person says doesn't matter. What A/B tests say matters.
Counterpoint: I think they usually look dumb, but seeing them does not prejudice me for or against the text of your article.

To clarify, I do sometimes get mad at actual photos that are poorly chosen, and the same is true of AI-generated photos demonstrating bad art direction, bad taste, or bad judgment on the part of the author or editor. But them being obviously AI-generated has nothing to do with it.

> I know there’s plenty of things you can roast my blog for but at least you know for a fact you’re getting the thoughts of a real human being and not some LLM.

In fact, I cannot know that.
The SN850x isn't a "gaming part", it's a top-of-the-line consumer SSD that uses the exact same type of NAND chips (3D TLC) that Apple uses in its products.
The fear of not achieving something is often slightly greater than the fear of doing something hard.
I think there's a vibe shift. I was obsessed with Dall-E when it first came out. Now I think these images look tacky.
Looking at you here, patio11.
lots of alcohol, cigarettes, and karaoke's

time is fleeting gents
TV footage seems like a WAY better alibi than cell phone pings.
Ho ho ho
Its christmas time
(5 tabs open)
The thing is, picking a company that actually will generate solid long-term revenue isn't really a thing. You can try, but your success rate, if you're good at it, is going to be about equal to the success rate of companies. There are dozens of studies of professional traders showing this. If you're bad at it, you'll buy into the companies that are pure hype and do worse. And... you probably aren't good at it. Most people aren't.

The people who beat the market consistently have information you don't. Instances of people who call major trends before they happen and get rich are likely survivor bias and not genius.
hey don't wish my bro more cancer lol
I stopped using AI-images as social media thumbnails since a) they take a surprising amount of effort in order to make distinct and non-generic with techniques such as ControlNet [e.g. https://minimaxir.com/2023/03/new-chatgpt-overlord/featured....] and b) thumbnails don't matter anymore for personal blogs since social media sharing of links is dead.
Oh that explains it, I thought it was just when I came of age. I did become suspicious that perhaps it wasn’t just a personal bias when I noticed the same movies on lists made by very different age groups.
My take is that unless they’re hand drawn images drawn with home made pencils and paper it’s not even really art.
If you're not using your iGPU, you can disable it in BIOS and you won't need to set HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION.
Earlier this year I was visiting friends and one of them was watching some terrible YouTube videos full of ancient alien type nonsense and full of AI stock footage. Half of it didn't make any sense, and it was just a bizarre experience - mixed up nonsense blather illustration with nonsense imagery.

The friend who was watching this stuff is not the brightest, and he's extremely gullible. I'd rather he just watch spiderman or something, he'd probably be better informed about the world.
I've come to feel the same. It feels very low-effort to use AI-generated content when communicating with an audience.
Ahh a reverse proxy. Thanks!
Not when it was taped an hour and 22 minutes before the murder

> "The discovery seemed a home run for Juan, who by then had been in jail over a month. Still, the prosecutor argued that the footage was from 9:10 p.m. — and the murder had occurred at 10:32. Juan ostensibly could have left early, driven to the scene of the crime, and still had time to kill Puebla."
I think the author is twisting things a bit to suit their own hiring needs.

Researchers at big tech companies always struggled to get promoted without showing some sort of impact.

What changed is before they could just publish papers (with 0 reproducibility due to “ai ethics”) and still coast by with a decent salary.

ChatGPT ended the whole “the paper is the product” phenomenon, and the end of ZIRP ended the smooth run for slackers in big tech overall.

AI phds are still in an amazing position compared to any other new grad software engineer.
who is them?
I graduated in 1995 in LA. Going to the movies was something most of us did every weekend. Just show up and get a ticket for the next thing you haven’t seen yet.

Many consider 1994 the best single year for movies ever.

I got really lucky that that was also my peak movie going year.
Research food trucks…
Seems like you’re trying to make a counterpoint that’s just reductio ad absurdum
Analytics and engagement tools designed specifically for podcast hosts
Sure, but the person asking this question is asking from a more beginner level that doesn't need to know that unusual edge case.

The answer I'd give is:

Yes, index funds made up of stocks are safer than individual stocks, because it's very unlikely all the investments in a large index will go to zero, or even all go down.

On average, index funds of stocks aren't more modest in gains than stocks--they do just as well as stocks on average.

People think they can pick individual stocks that beat an index, and sometimes they do, but there is good reason to believe that their successes are the product of random chance rather than actual ability. If it is possible at all to pick stocks that beat the market, it is a lot of work. If you're thinking of investing, I'd start with an index.
And some more background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War
It is also not a pipe
> if it was a coverup, then the EAAID gave away its own game by attaching the BEA’s comprehensive findings.

I'd say, that EAAID had written the report in a way to make the coveraup unmistakable. I mean, the reasoning is not just bad, it contradicts to itself in a way, that to my mind one couldn't achieve without a deliberation. So it is possible that EAAID was forced to support the hypothesis but resisted it in the only way it could.
Using a full browser engine with JS disabled is not the same as you won't get the architectural benefits of not having to support dynamic changes by JS at all.

It allows for a much simpler one-way processing from one stage to another. In comparison a full browser must maintain data structures for fast dynamic changes by JS, making it much more complex. I've written about it in a more detail in the About section.

Embedding of a full browser engine as an option is planned, I've chosen CEF as the most suitable choice. It could be used for specific tabs or websites (eg. applications) while being integrated with the rest of the browser. However CEF is not very portable so it won't be available for all planned systems.

This way you would use it only for websites/applications that need it while saving resources when browsing the rest of the websites.
Login-walled. Anyone have an archive that doesn't require endless cloudflare captchas (looking at you, archive.ph)?
You can turn off the "auto" part in "autocomplete". IMO it's a bad default that it's on.
It's mostly for practical reasons. I use Monotone for VCS which is not an active project (but a good SW regardless). Then there is the issue with having additional stuff in the repository that is meaningful just for me but I don't intend to release it (or not in the current form).
Two things: 1. Your comment was unnecessary; and 2. It came out as an Ad, especially in this time where AI companies are spamming all spaces left and right.
Children and grandchildren. And I enjoy my life in general.
I like living indoors and eating slightly more than I hate my job.
I don’t know. Maybe inability to not keep going. Some sort of innate evolutionary failsafe I guess
boredom, seriously.

i think i've fried my brain
way too much in my early 20s
that i got this mild anhedonia
from anything external.

but it's nice, these days i
get to do and enjoy things out
of pure interest and curiosity.

it's now less of a grind, and
now more of "given x time, y
resources, and z opportunies
around me, what is a much more
entertaining outcome that i can
come up with?"
Revealed: The Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
ACL2 is a proof assistant. AP5 seems to be more of a relational data structure language.
ios limits browser framerate by default, you can try going to settings > apps > safari > advanced > feature flags > disable "prefer page rendering near 60hz" and see if that has any effect. you can test by going to testufo and seeing if it gets the right framerate.
the bullies, the naysayers, the non-believers! aha
There are other boxes yet unopened such as genetics. The question worth asking is what should we do when it's too much for us to handle.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.

I haven't used Ruby in about five years but I'm still looking forward to reading the release notes for 3.4(?) over coffee in the morning, as I've done every Christmas for about 15 years.
Curiosity. I can never stop living if I still have curiosity for what the next day brings.
I dont see how it helps in a cloud environment? With correct permissions users aren't making changes to live servers or even logging in and if you want to roll out upgrades you can do it with OS images already?

Maybe it would help in a datacenter
I could conceed the first point, in limited circumstances, but the second is moot to say the least.

Tool using big LLMs when asked can double-check their shit just like "real" lawyers.

As the confidence of advice, how much the rates of the mistakes are different between human lawyers and the latest GPT?
An expensive one.

I'd spend that money on piano/drawing lessons or something. Or take a few trips around the world.

Better return on investment.
On what measure of success?

A/B tests say that Ariana Grande is about 20x better than Mozart (according to Spotify stats, actually impressed Mozart holds up so well.)

So something besides popularity in the moment has to matter. Which A/B tests won't capture.
When they came for the Horse-Buggy manufacturers I said nothing, because I didn't make Horse Buggies.

When they came for the secretary and typist I did nothing because I'm not a secretary. (I did rename the position to Personal Assistant, but that's another story.)

When they came for the Filing Clerk, for the Coal Miner, for the bookkeeper, for the switchboard operator, for the elevator operator, I said nothing because that's just progress.

When they came for the farmer I cheered in the name of effeciency, when small family farms were subsumed into conglomerates I bowed to the alter of capitalism.

But now they're coming for the programmer? Burn the house down! Pough the ground with salt! Woe is me, the end us nigh....
Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers
As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for.

I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4].

To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric.

I would love your feedback on the site :)
Happy Holidays!

[1]: https://www.mixedbread.ai/docs/embeddings/mxbai-embed-large-...
[2]: https://milvus.io/
[3]: https://www.gradio.app/
[4]: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/Cornell-University/arxiv
Oh, yeah. I asked QwQ (their text based reasoning model released a few weeks ago) about the Tiananmen Square Massacre and got a simple response [1]: “I’m sorry, I can’t help you with that.”

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/davely.bsky.social/post/3lc6mpnjks5...
They wasted an opportunity to get a third thing meaning "million" into the same number with 5.6 x 10^6 million megagrams.
Indeed I much prefer a tournament format.
> I play poker and would never be stupid enough to put real money on it

This whole thread is casinos arguing against regulation because casual poker players don’t get addicted. We have billions of dollars targeting young people (mostly single young men) with gambling, from zero-day options trading to crypto and sports betting.
I love that the project embraces piss as its central theme, the name itself, all variables such as "pissAmount"... But then the project description modestly calls it "urine".

That's my favorite project of 2024 so far!
Well thank you. My current job is probably only possible due to lambda!
There is https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/cobweb-theory/
Maybe consider using a stock market simulator, make trades based on inside information, and see where you end up in one year? That would be interesting.
Is it messed up that my first thought was relief that these are regular 'ol white supremacists, and not Russian intelligence?
Base64.cv
just listening to the radio.
The fact that I, or anyone, is alive and sentient is truly miraculous. I’ve only got one shot to make the most of it.
i just like more robot racing and robot battles
> i bombed it, partly because of anxiety

I feel this. Can't tell you how many interviews I bombed because of anxiety. The worst one I had spent like 3 months interviewing with the company, passed all of their tests, etc. When it came time to meet the team, I just froze. I answered all of their questions correctly, but it was like I wasn't myself. I became extremely slow, stammering my words, and just blanking out. The CTO couldn't take it anymore and said "just stop talking. This isn't going to work". I quickly ended the call without saying anything and felt so defeated. What is wrong with me.

That was years ago. I'm much better now, mostly because I have the confidence in my skills, but it still comes up, especially when people are being aggressive during interviews.

Anyway, Merry Christmas. I wish you the best.
News for Ruby 3.4.0
When my son was three, we setup a particularly beautiful tree and our first big light display on our front porch (the tree was just inside the big bay window)

My wife and I were dead tired, and my son woke us up in a state of complete excitement. She headed downstairs to “check for elves” and prepare a few things, with me and kiddo at the top of the stairs.

When the elves were confirmed to have vacated, I went down, followed by my son. We somehow got him to wait for me to sit on the couch and then… he rounded the corner. My son started singing “deck the halls” The look of pure joy and innocence and excitement is a memory I will treasure forever.

We’ve since tragically lost my wife to cancer, and although he’s much older now, we maintain most of the little traditions and either still believe or pretend to each other to believe a few special aspects of our celebration. Christmas was my wife’s joy and we revere it in a unique way.
My lovely wife, to whom I've been married for decades.

Otherwise, money
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42501102
That is one pretty unbelievable list.
Arcade collectors are practically liquidating Japan of many valuable arcade cabinets and PCBs. Nobody cared about much of these items 10-15 years ago. The YouTube and Reddit subcultures have grown a new younger audience for retro gaming, who often have a lot of money to throw around buying up rare items. There are also IG accounts of folks in places like Dubai, who clearly have wealth, amassing large collections of Japanese retro game tech.

If Japan, Sony or any other individual wanted to save this CRT for themselves, it would have been snatched up by now. The fact stands that the creator of the video is the only person on earth who did the detective work and put boots on the ground to make it their own rare CRT. Good work, I say!
Except, you know what? It fails (corrupting memory!) for negative keys k.
I use nearly of these tools with the exception of Perl. I go to great lengths to make sure I have access to them because it's so critical for quality of life. I love them and I understand why people love them.

Here's the reason: these languages/tools are tactically very powerful. Tactics are immediate and decisive. Tactics are effectively tricks in the sense that if you can "spot the trick", you can -- with a tiny amount of work -- reduce a formidable problem to virtually nothing. Having a vast toolkit that facilitates such tricks is incredibly powerful and makes you appear to have superpowers to colleagues who aren't familiar with them.

But tactics are definitionally short-term. You deploy them in the weeds, or at least from the forest, (hopefully) never from the skies. Tactics aren't concerned with the long term, nor how things fit together structurally. They are not concerned with maintainability or architecture.

This is why it isn't actually that important that you can cobble together a 15 line Perl script in an hour to do something that would take any of your colleagues a week. Years from now, when you are gone and someone runs into a similar but slightly different problem, someone will find your Perl script, not understand it, and rewrite it all in Java anyway. Or assume it's too hard and give up. Maybe they will adapt your Perl script, but more likely it'll be seen as a curiosity

It sucks, because there is beauty in that approach of solving problems. As I said in another comment, I wish there were more diversity in tooling and languages. But at the same time, it's important to consider that people are fundamental. All of this is in service to that. And I personally would rather build software that people use over the long term.
After a period of extreme burnout I started to explore different meditative techniques and, as part of that exploration, read the Bhagavad-gita.

Greatly paraphrashing for the sake of brevity, but the idea that has guided me since then is that we cannot help but take some action or perform some work. At the very least we need to eat, but to eat we need to get some food and cook it. We need to get shelter from the elements. You know all the basic stuff. Ok, so let's say we have a job in order to satisfy just the basic requirements to stay alive. Do we work just for that reason alone? No! Doing so traps us into this vicious materialistic cycle. A dreary life of working and paying bills and buying things that please our senses but are ultimately unsatisfying.

So, we need to work, but working for even the barest of material benefit is a trap so what to do? The answer is work with detachment. Work because you know you have to and you like what you do, but that's it. Break the connection to the material outcomes of work. Your work needs to transcend materialistic concerns.

If you are so inclined religiously you work for the satisfaction of God, work is itself an offering. Your work transcends, then, the materialistic trap.

If you are more atheistic then perhaps take the attitude that human society as a greater good needs as many of us to Do The Right Thing. Scientific studies show we are social creatures and the good positive contributions we make invariably help others, even if we don't see it. Even if we're just installing POS software at a chain restaurant along a busy freeway. Even such a mundane endeavor is a glorious celebration of simply Being!
things haven't changed since vanguard started index funds 5 decades ago. buying and holding diversified assets prevents you from thinking "You need to figure out what is going to 10x tomorrow."
“Reports of a link between tobacco and lung cancer emerged as early as 1912, but until the 1950s, the evidence was circumstantial since smoking was so pervasive in society.”

Microplastics?
A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer
The year of the leopard print futon.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world because my bed could fold up into a couch. Funny enough, I still sleep great on futons. These days if I lie down on a futon, go ahead and assume I'm about to take an hour long nap.
It was novel and funny when it first came out. Now it's not novel and just crap. Its fine to have no image on your blog post, its better than a slop generated pic.
What an incredibly specific application!
The time served can’t be undone but the incarceration can.